guess what's exciting? well one of the best things in a long time. I've been asked to submit a photo for compound gallery's september show called idealistically hypocritical. this show will be featuring 20 different artists of all kinds including photographers, illustrators, painters, designers and some filmmakers. i'm pretty freaking pleased with the talent already recruited and completely humbled to be part of this show! ever since the gallery opened i thought how cool it would be to show there. now is perfect. thanks friends! please be sure to be there on september 2nd, or we will most certainly not be pals anymore.

here are some things from a couple dudes in the show. so neat.

sam brosnan: portlander: photographer: filmmaker:


Evening Commute from Sam Brosnan on Vimeo.


dominik kruger: portlander: photographer: awesome

i really love his approach to architectural photographer. really smooth and really nice lines that he captures.

ryuchi ogino (ogi): painter: awesome:

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e. badu.

oh lordy.  this weekend i scored a home-run. no, really. i did.  we played whiffle ball and i totally hit a home-run. 

in other home-run terms: friday was a home-run because the beautiful, glorious, wonderful, magical, amazing  erykah badu graced portland with her presence at the fix!!  there had been much talk the last couple of weeks and it was confirmed friday at 6pm. oooowweeee!! what a nite.  georgia anne muldrow and dudley perkins were amazing enough, but with badu?  get outta town!  it was so damn fonky i still am on clouds.  words can't describle her.  she is the shit.  that's all there is to it!  life is complete. i can die now.  here's a clip from the show.  be jealous.



thank yous to all my friends with the fix crew for making dreams come true.  love you boys.

betsy walton is my new favorite.  during these days that are filled only with dark clouds and warm rain, it's so good to find inspiration in something magical like her paintings.  she is also a mythical storyteller, which you can get into at her blog. her work is so dream-like and vivid-filled with rich color; and along with the shapes that accentuate it - pretty fucking magical i'd say! 

i actually found her via a brand spanking new collective website called arrow to arrow which features mostly portland artists, but has a few other fine folks in there as well.  very very nice.

i'm trying to fill my eyes with as much color and imagery as possible until the summer comes.  it feels like it's never going to get here, but i have faith.  oh yes i do.  reminds me a little of that story 'all summer in a day' by ray bradbury when the summer only came for one fleeting day.  i felt so bad for that girl, margot.  what a bumout. 

anyhow, yay summer! 

p/s/ if anyone finds a zagnut bar in their neighborhood cornerstore, please to be sending it my way.  kthx. i told mayor adams about, hopefully he has this on his to-do list.  although, he didn't know what one was. jeez louise!

cupcake tuesday.

horay for today. not only is it muthalovin’ tuesday, but one of the dudeladies is back today! carlton left us to go to the american school in D.C. and become even more magical with her painting skills. to celebrate carlton’s return, I vote for cupcakes and tea. except instead of tea, we’ll have to drank wine or something. maybe we can have tea, it’s whatever. as long as we can have some yummy cupcakes and what not. duh.

carlie leagjeld is totally magical! the work she has been doing are some really beautiful mixed media on paper and canvas, as well as small installations. all of it is to represent the unseen in the world around us. up close, her work has intense layers of texture and color that communicates with different levels of how we see; not just how we see the visual work but to explore the environment where we live and how we think. they are quite lovely. i even have a teeny one inside my art cabinet. inspiration. so glad to have you back in portland.

fine art master.

                                        

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blah blah.

I am not in the mood for this today. i'm not even joking. I don't even have anything funny to post for today. well, not yet at least.

friday was the mystery ride. and of course, someone got hurt. jesus. I can't take you kids anywhere. josh's palm looked like the inside of a cherry poptart. I don't even think there is a cherry flavored pop tart, but if there was/is it would look like josh's little paw. we rode probably a million miles on friday nite. good times. I'll be posting some pictures as soon as anna gets them on the internets. ewwww/yay!

saturday was the block party in china town. it was pretty alright. lots of friends out enjoying some of the last of our nice weather (booooo). M64 did their thing and that was really nice, especially their lovely cover of house of the rising sun. who doesn't love that song? after them, a bunch of hipsters wearing toms showed up for yacht and someone else. I have no idea. we went to republic cafe and drank prairie fires.

someday loung hosted a free show with tony ozier's doo doo funk band, the lifesavas and chief xcel. dude. what happened to chief xcel? he must have gone to ground kontrol to play tetris or something, cuz his set was last? no one even had the energy to hang tough through his set for reals. lifesavas and tony ozier's band killed it. good times.

side note to saturday is that a person i dreamt about a while ago appeared to me in real life. flesh and blood. it was weird and amazing and left me speechless. it gives me the willies just thinking about it.

tra la la. whatever. I'm going to go troll the internets for something fun and exciting.

thinking.

I'm really tired all of a sudden. the clouds are back, leaving a stillness to the warm air. you never know if it's going to pour down and rain or stretch open like a wound pouring sunshine. it's a fine line it seems like. at any rate, I'm rather nostalgic today. I was thinking about how beautiful and purple the sky was last night and how I wanted it to last forever. I like to reminisce through my film. it's making a comeback this fall. I have about ten rolls to get developed. I can't wait, I really can't.